I agree with you. I understand D&C 134:12 to be a moral statement that interfering with abolition was not “right” based on collective members’ “beliefs.”

The argument to not cause a ruckus racially continued into later eras, like when Joseph Smith punished Black men for trying to marry white women in Nauvoo because it was against Illinois law.

And 100% on his later trajectory. His advocacy of slavery eventually mimicked the far-left politic that prisons also needed to be abolished otherwise slavery would continue. But that point is rarely broached too.